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With the question of Allston looming, last week’s discussion of undergraduate housing across the river made clear that University President Lawrence H. Summers is considering expanding the size of the undergraduate body. This move—which would boost College enrollment by roughly a thousand—would be aimed primarily to increase the number of international students in attendance. While critics decry the loss of community and detriment to the College’s educational standards, it’s clear that expanding enrollment will only result in an increasingly diverse and vibrant population...
...interview last night, Carlson said the easement was part of a deal that was unfair to his section of Riverside because it would allow Harvard to block his street off from the river with new buildings...
After taking a spill, several sailors found themselves digging their masts from the river bottom or avoiding other capsizing boats which had flipped while steering too hard a course to avoid other incapacitated crafts...
...years to finish the job. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, miners dumped 60 million tons of toxic metals into waterways, but state officials are fighting a Superfund cleanup, fearing a stigma that might hurt tourism. In New York, General Electric, which contaminated 40 miles of the Hudson River with cancer-causing PCBs, has hired high-profile attorney Laurence Tribe to convince federal courts that the Superfund law is unconstitutional. And in New Jersey, where the rabbits frolicking around the Chemical Insecticide Corp. plant once grew green-tinged fur, cleanup funds were restored only after locals sent green plush bunnies...
...surfer dude in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. And one of his four Oscar nominations was for playing a sweet-souled retarded man in I Am Sam. But he won an Oscar this year for mobilizing an implacably vengeful rage as the father of a murdered girl in Mystic River. Before that, he turned his anger into the rancid sullenness of a tormented guitar player in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown and made us sympathize with an unapologetic killer in Tim Robbins' death-row drama, Dead Man Walking. Let's call him a necessary actor. The movies always have...